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What irritates me is when members use Sacrament as a time to catch up with gossip. The whisper to their seat mates throughout the entire meeting! It doesn't bother me a bit to turn around or to sit foreward, and whisper to them to Please go out side to do their visiting. That will usually hush them up.

Another pet peeve is when parents sit together and their 4 to 7 children sit along the pew and then poke, hit, yell at each other and Mom and Dad ignore it. Why don't they sit on each end of the group with the oldest child in the middle and keep the children from attacking each other???

There was one family in which the children came in their pajamas. This bothered me to no end. Our meeting time was 10 AM, so there really was no excuse for this. I can understand when you have an 8 AM start time, but then only 18 mo. and younger could still be in jammies, not the older children!

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I guess I'm just too easy going, I have not noticed anything at church that I can complain about etiquette wise. Although I have never seen anyone use a cell phone during a meeting, that would be rude. Maybe irreverant behaviour would be my only complaint. It is not uncommon for some members to be gabbing loudly at the start of the meeting. We used to put two small primary children on each side of the pulpit during the prelude music with their arms folded as an example but it didn't work.

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I have seen this- and it really bothers me- when adults are finishing their lesson that they need to give next. I've seen people cutting things, coloring them, reading their manuals while making notes, searching their scriptures. I don't know what circumstances have brought these people to not have their lessons prepared, and maybe their is a good reason, but it just seems so disrespectful to whoever is speaking. Do we all want the congregation to pay attention as best as they can when WE are speaking or bearing our testimonies? I may be wrong about this, but I have always taken very seriously when we end our testimony or talk in the name of Jesus Christ. I almost feel like I are speaking on His behalf by saying that. If Jesus himself were there speaking or bearing testimony I bet that we would hang on every word. I know we are human, being imperfect in our understanding of the gospel, and not Jesus, but when someone bears testimony or speaks, I believe they deserve my attention. Of course I have children that I have had to care for and have had to take out, but even when I am outside I try to listen. What do any of you have to say about this?

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I've seen that also, the cutting, pasting, highlighting, etc., for lessons or whatever. And agree that it's rude and disrespectful; we are supposed to be reverent and attentive in sacrament meeting -- even if the speaker is not exactly charismatic or eloquent. I try really hard to pay attention and listen, and help my daughter do the same. She is not so young now that she can't sit still for an hour.

Roz

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Here are some others that are often overlooked but still very upsetting at times:

1. A class teacher is going overtime and taking up the time of another meeting

2. People getting up and down during a lesson

3. Everyone gathers at the entrance to the chapel and you cannot pass

4. While teaching someone feels what they have to say is more important than the teacher's and blabbers for 5 minutes and then the teacher has to now rush through her lesson.

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I am in definite agreement with numbers 3 and 4. I just thought of another one. Most wards share a chapel. We now meet at 10:20 instead of 9:00, and we have sacrament meeting last. You would think, having just been the ward to have sacrament last from last year, that they would remember to try not to be too loud and not have screaming and running up and down the halls. We always tried to be respectful of them. It is annoying to me and my children get distracted with wanting to know what is going on outside the chapel.

Edited: dawnofthenew on 10th Jan, 2005 - 1:25am

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This almost is acceptable in a lot of member's eyes. It has been going on for so long. Many of these people witnessed their parents doing the same thing.

Well, if it is the same people each week, I am less inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt. If it is a situation where this person rarely does this, but just got too busy in personal life to get the lesson prepared, I am more willing to be forgiving or accepting. After all, we all have busy lives and we are all volunteers. There will be times when life gets in the way, but if this is a weekly occurence for us, we should carefully examine who well we are magnifying, or even simply fulfilling, our calling.

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Very true. I think the problem also lies that they just simply do not care enough.... how different do you all think would be if they know Pres. Hinckley will be present at the lesson next Sunday?.